[deanhills]

Not to be rude, but it would've been much attractive and awesome if you'd have posted pics too. Other than that, thank you for the post

Not rude at all Manal. Thank you for the heads up and constructive feedback.

A very well-written tutorial @deanhills.

In fact, it is far more than just a simple tutorial, as it contains a lengthy "Lessons learned" section that is useful for those also experience difficulties during their phpBB forum installation. Good job.

Thanks tryp4vps. Those lessons learned were really frustrating. I'm tempted to post my "tutorial" also at phpBB Forum.

@dean
so you guys are still keeping that domain up ! nice !
i just read the post about frihost on gigarocket. Thats like a big historical account and you are like a goddamn historian. You know so much about what went down in free vps community and free hosting in general that i guess you write a book !
May be you should post some articles on medium detailing the developments. Just for the fun of keeping records at least.

Thank you for the positive feedback rudra.  I've learned a lot, but you know, sincerely, I'm not just saying this, the more I learn the more I know how little I know.  There has never been a moment yet, where I felt I was on top of the game.  There's always something new added to how it works, which I think is a good thing as it's keeping me on my toes.

Take also for example phpBB.  Up to phpBB 3.0 I felt I knew how it worked. I'd been working with phpBB 2.0 to phpBB 3.0 as staff and also created a hobby Forum for myself. I could completely edit a theme and create a new one out of it.  I really loved how it worked.  And then slap bang a 360 degrees change happened with phpBB with version 3.2 when the creativity was taken out of the Admin Panel. It was impossible to upgrade a theme from 3.0 to 3.2 as they were worlds apart.  I guess the phpBB developers had done it to make phpBB more secure.  When I worked with 3.2 for the first time when I created it last year, it was a complete new learning curve.  One thing is for sure.  phpBB is not as sophisticated as myBB.  BUT, it is more efficient.  I haven't experienced one conflict yet.  Mind you, I still have to go through an upgrade first, and probably should count my words on that, until I've upgraded it once.  With our last myBB upgrade at Gigarocket, there were so many conflicts with the theme.  MyBB is nice because it's free, and it's also easy for a developer to create all kinds of new plugins, but it can be very frustrating to work with.

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